Quotes

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.